My cauliflower cheese bombs were quite the hit, so I decided to try them in the air fryer yesterday and YUM💯
they had the crispiest outside and cheesy/goooey inside. I served them with honey mustard (just combined @sirkensingtons dijon and some honey)🍯
I saved tutortials for both oven and air fryer method to my “cauli 🧀 bomb” highlight, you can also find the full recipes on my blog!
#DashOfMandi#realfood

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Saturdays Farmers Market haul; red cabbage, pink radicchio, baby turnips, brussel sprouts, fingerling potatoes, leeks and parsley. So excited to cook with these beauties this week!⁣
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Do you do the Farmer’s Market year round? If you do have one that goes year round it’s definitely worth a trip. It’s a great way to eat with the seasons and get out of comfort zone and cook some different things. ⁣
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So with that, I’m going to to a little Iron Chef/Mystery Box style challenge and I need your help. Pick one or two and/or give me some suggestions on what you’d like to see me cook using these ingredients and I’ll do a little step by step in my stories on Thursday night. ⁣
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I want to show you how you can make really great meals when you use a few ingredients as your starting point instead of always following a recipe and it doesn’t have to be complicated. Let’s have some fun! ⁣
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Comment below with your suggestions 👇👇❤️⁣
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#thenewhealthy#cookingathome#farmersmarketfinds ⁣

It’s breadtime! 😴🥖Wanted to use these tomatoes for cooking but then I smelled them. And then I looked at that sexy bread loaf. And then I remembered I had a burrata in the fridge. And then, the whole world made sense...

We are just wrapping up week three of our 52 week food photography project. You can always jump in if you’d like. The Facebook group is linked in my profile. This week’s prompt was ‘round’ #foodasart52

Baked Chicken Thighs with Collard Greens! Definitely a Southern dish ❤️We typically only eat collards on thanksgiving and Christmas, but at the farmers market this weekend they were so cheap and looked so good so we bought some! All we did too cook this is cut it up and fill the saucepan up with water and let it cook with a few pieces of bacon for some added flavor. The chicken was seasoned from Whole Foods and I just put it in the oven 👌🏼

I’ve been working around the “cluck” to pull together this chicken pot pie. My Nene’s recipe is a family secret that never fails. No better way to spend a three day weekend than filling bellies from my kitchen with my grandmother’s recipe 😍

the best way to get my brother to eat something healthy: hot sauce
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this combo (usually) will work for even the pickiest eaters:
•tofu mashed and cooked with turmeric, curry, cayenne, salt and pepper - topped with hot sauce
•smashed avocado with lemon and salt
all over sourdough bread!

Sunday’s are great because it’s okay to wake up and eat foods from different times of the day and just say its brunch 🤤
1) Oreo French toast with home fries from @bistrovonish
2) Buffalo bites from @sundaze.veganornot
All possible @possum_park 🦚

Dinner is served! Tonight we have a Cape Verde style Chinese fried rice. My version is made with tuna, carrots, and fresh red kidney beans instead of the green peas in the recipe. I pan seared fresh tuna steaks to get a nice golden color and crust, then shred it to mix with rice. *
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Recipe Link: https://thewoksoflife.com/2013/11/vegetable-fried-rice/
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Dinner being served by hubby @vieirajjoao tonight. Chicken quarters with carrots and potatoes and a super tasty looking gravy. Less than one month left until my trip to USA, and one of the main things that I’m looking forward to is to be able to enjoy his amazing cuisines again. Bon Appetit! *
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Today was supposed to be the first day for me to start the “Brittne Babe 21 Day Challenge: Vol 8.” After taking a closer look, however, it turns out that all of the workouts have not yet been released, the first week will be fully available on January 6th. In the meantime I will be continuing to use Vol. 7 for my cardio in combination with “How to Get Abs,” until I can start Vol. 8 on the 6th. I am also making sure to give my body plenty of fuel to get the work done like this nutritious smoothie that I had today. Ingredients: frozen strawberries, Santa Claus melons, avocado and banana. Yumm! *
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Ending a great day with a great smoothie. What could be better? Ingredients: strawberry, papaya and some kind of of melon that I did not recognize at the store but still wanted to try. When I got home I did some research and apparently they are called “Santa Claus melons.” How insteresting. Have you ever had them? They tasted a lot like honeydew melons to me.
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Results... Jamaican fried dumplings with salted and dried fish! This fish is not to be confused with “salt fish” which is cod. Ok, I had some problems making these and I will tell you guys about them. First I do not have any baking supplies here so I eyeballed all the measurements. I don’t think I did a bad job but until I make another one with exact measurements, I’ll never know for sure. Then when I went to fry them they cooked on the outside but inside was raw. I didn’t give up though, I popped them in the oven and finished them there. As I told you guys in my previous post, I’ve never had Jamaican fried dumplings and have always wanted to know what they taste like. Now that I have I would say that, in my opinion, they taste like biscuits! To the people that have had them, am I right?? I enjoyed making them and am looking forward to doing so again!
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Recipe Link: https://tastetheislandstv.com/jamaican-fried-dumplings/
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Dinner time 🙂... Pan seared teriyaki tuna with baked squash and carrot strips. The recipe for the teriyaki sauce is posted below. I followed their suggestion on how to make fish with teriyaki sauce in the pan. But because I didn’t have enough space in my pan I had to sear the fish first then return it to the pan, after cleaning it, to add the teriyaki sauce. Bon Appetit! ♨️
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Recipe Link: https://www.japanesefoodreport.com/2010/08/original-teriyaki.html
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Today I decided to have a “self-care” day. I stayed home and worked most of the day, I am washing my hair, painting my nails... and I also had this delicious and healthy smoothie. Ingredients: frozen strawberry, banana, fresh coconut, passion fruit and frozen mixed berries. Life can get hectic but I am making sure to set time aside for myself, it is so important. Do you guys have “self-care days” too? Do you think it’s important? What are some of the things that you do on your self-care days? Please share ☺️ ... *
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I waited all this time for my little soursops to ripen and after they did, I didn’t think it would take so long, they didn’t taste very good at all. I will just wait until the regular size ones are available and buy them instead. In the meantime I can’t complain at all because I still get to enjoy ingredients like these 😋. In today’s smoothie we have frozen strawberry, papaya, mango and fresh coconut. All the fruits, except strawberries, are organic and locally grown in the Cape Verde islands. 🌍✨
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Tonight’s dinner is another chef João exclusive. This is another one of his creations. The official dish is pan seared scallops, butternut squash and pomegranate risotto. But this dish was a trial run and they did not have butternut squash. I don’t know about you guys but I wouldn’t mind having that pomegranate risotto in my life right about now 😋. Bon Appetit! ♨️
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Ok everyone tonight we have another Chef Joao❤️ treat. He started his new job at an amazing new seafood restaurant and he sent me this video of one of his creations. The dish is pan seared halibut over butternut squash puree and diced delicate squash and beurre blanc sauce. I don’t eat shrimp but I can still appreciate the beauty of a well made dish. Is he a talented chef or what 😍? Bon Appetit! 🛎
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Last of Chef Ras cuisine for today. This one was breaded fried fresh cod with potatoes. Delicious. As I told you guys before my fiancee is a chef and definitely one of the main influences for many of the foods that I share with you guys on this page. *
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